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a SORES eee TA ee a ae ee — . THE BIRMINGHAM KEWS BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA July 14, 1947 By ALYCE BILLINGS WALKER News Staff Writer Virginia Hili, former Bessemer girl spotlighted as a friend of the murdered racketeer, Benjamin. “Bugsy” Siegel, is reported to have eft Paris, France, bound for home. |. Where's home to Virginia, friends Ihere are wondering. Will she head for her palatial home in Miami? Will she return to the Beverly Hills, ‘Calif, mansion in which Siegel was bbed out by the underworld? Will drop by to see her former ds in Bessemer, or go to see patents in Marietta, Ga.? er since Siegel was killed by. a ee nee still-unknown enemies in Miss Hill's home June 20, Virginia's name has been in the news, She’s been the topic of conversation among ac- quaintances here and in, Marietta, (Photos, Page 3) Ga, where she spent & brief period of her childhood. . FOLKS HERE’ and in Marietta are in the dark as io how Virginia Hill changed from “a quiet, sweet little girl” to an international fig- ure. They don’t know why the un- derworld is said to have threatened to “take care of her,” too. They can only fill in some parts “t la Hill? They Knew Her 4 4 /hen, But Now? A Closed Door Plainly-clothed, rather puny girl with mouse-colored hair, who has become a mink-draped, titian-haired glamorous headline maker of two continents. She never talked dur- ing her infrequent visits—her moth- er says, not even to her—about her _|husbands, money or activities. Virginia's family came here from Marietta about four years before she was born. One of 10 children, sbe was born at Lipscomb, Aug 26,! 1816, That's what the doctor Bays who brought heré into the rid. However, she gave herself behefit of another year when she applied Turn to Page 7, Column 1 of the story of “Tabby” Hill, ‘ Tres - ROUTED TO “JUL 27 1947 LOS ANCEE PEtD OFFA